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Word: magic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...generation has seen too many victories incourt fade away to believe in the magic ghost ofcase law," said Strickland. "You can't survive asan Indian people even if you have all the caselaw...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Native American Scholars Hold Summit | 10/28/1989 | See Source »

...mascot for the Orlando Magic is called (gasp) Stuff the Magic Dragon...

Author: By Julio R. Varela, | Title: Sweeney's Back for the Bruins | 10/26/1989 | See Source »

Still, a puritan conscience recoils a little from the sheer power of photographs. They have lingering about them the ghost of the golden calf -- the bright object too much admired, without God's abstract difficulties. Great photographs bring the mind alive. Photographs are magic things that traffic in mystery. They float on the surface, and they have a strange life in the depths of the mind. They bear watching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: Imprisoning Time in a Rectangle | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

...five-year- old company that expects to rake in $115 million in revenues this year. Her sportswear line arrived in stores eight months ago in one of the most successful launches in fashion history. Says Joan Kaner, senior vice president of the Neiman Marcus chain: "Donna's name is magic right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Style for the 9-to-5 Set | 10/23/1989 | See Source »

...seemed that all Vic had to do was to talk to somebody and he could improve their game," Kramer recalls. Word about Braden's magic touch spread; soon people were signing up as much as two years in advance for his half-hour individual lessons, which usually drew an appreciative nonpaying audience of local toads. He also took time to organize a class of blind children, calling out numbers to help them aim their racquets at machine-propelled balls. "Golly," says Braden, "when the kids hit the ball, I was more thrilled than they were." It was at Rolling Hills...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Teaching Tennis to Toads Vic Braden, Coach Extraordinaire, Uses Humor and Physics to Show Nonstars | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

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